River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-21
NoRTHwEsTERN NEWS.

The 10th, was the hottest day at La
Crosse, Wis, in fifteen years, 80 deg. There
were three deaths from sun-stroke. A far
mer in the country, near by fell dead while
moving. At Madison, Wis, for twenty
two DAYS consecutively the mercury has
ranged from a degrees to SO, the average
being 50 degrees for the period named. The
warmest day ever known in Madison was
July last year, when the registration was
100 degrees. The 18th it was SO, the highest
of the year, and the same on the 10th
twenty cases of sunstroke were reported at
Milwaukee, three fatal, and at Davenport,
Ia, three fatal ca es ON the 10Th. There
was one death at GAINESVILLE, Wis, and one
at Winona, Mimi.
Charles City, Iowa, special: The
chinch bugs have destroyed large portion
of the wheat of this section, injured oats
and barley, and are now doing considerable
damage to the corn, several of the outside
rows to some fields are already dead from
their effects. In 1856 they did some damage,
but early in July great rain destroyed
them. Besides being very dry, Tuesday,
intensely hot, 9S to 80 deg. in the shade.
The tame hay crop is estimated at about
One-third.
Friday afternoon while loading hay
With hay loader John w. Wratzes, living
three miles from Spring Valley, Mimi, had
his feot torn off by a team running away,
catching his leg in the rope The leg was
badly mangled, necessitating amputatiOn.
Gunder Hallem, a Norwegian living near
Spring Valley, dropped dead Friday after
noon while pumping water, doubtless from
sunstroke, as he complained of the heat and
left the field
Yankton, Dakota special; The com
missioners of Douglas county are here to
retain counsel in the suit recently brought
against the county by Hon. +. NJ, Goody
koontZ to recover $500 90 lost on the
fraudulent bonds issued under the first or
ganization of the county. This is the noto-
rious affair in which G. T. Mccoy and on
VI. II Day were alleged to nav been IN
vOlv9d.
AT Rochester, Mimi, the residence of
c. f Marvin, ook fire from an explosion of
gasoline and was burned The servant girl,
Olga Christofferson, as frightfully turned,
her clothing being nearly burned off and
her arms and legs completely blistered.
Her injuries are not necessarily fatal Loss
500 insured in the Hartford for $500
81 600 being on furniture.
Sioux Falls special: Sioux Falls has
Just secured another railroad. At the me t
ing held on the 18th. the Illinois Central
iced TO let the contract for "A road be-
~. cen Cherokee and Sioux Falls if the city
would donate to the company the right OF
way and depot grounds. The offer was nc
eepted and the road will be in operation 10y
the LIST of December.
The colored citizens of Winona and
La Crosse are making arrangements to hold
a big celebration at Winona, Aug. |, TO com
Inemorats the esta lishment Of free colony
at Liberia. Hundreds of cOlored people are
expected from all over the Northwest Sew
eral speakers of considerable reputation
will make addresses.
Jack Cummings, section boss on the
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St Paul railway,
was killed Tuesday at Marian Junction
OAK. by the fall ng of large piece of coal
from the tender of a passing engine. lie
lived an hour. He is a single man and his
body viii be sent to Beulah, Iowa, where
his father resides
A young girl at Milwaukee committed
suicide Tuesday by jumping into the riv r.
She had been at work as a domestic and
complaint had been made 10 her father that
she vas keeping late hou and bad com
pany. The father threatened to send her to
the industrial school, hence the suicide.
The election in the Brown county,
OAK, county seat contest on the 18th. re
suited in giving Aberdeen about loo
n alority over Columbia. The total vote In
the county is over 40 Aberdeen city
polled 1,t23 only five in favor of Columbia.
According to the Signal Service re-
port at St. Paul, July Is. with the mercury
at 95, was the hottest day ever experienced
there, save one, July l. 1883 when the re-